330 ON A BOTANICAL VISIT TO THE AUCKLAND ISLANDS. 
extremely rare in theislands. R. aucklandicus is not unfrequent 
on Campbell Island; but I failed to find R. subscaposus. 
Your Rumex cuneifolius, var. alsinefolius, is my R. neglectus ; 
observed only in Port Ross. Colobanthus muscoides is found 
sparingly on the Snares, and plentifully on Antipodes Island, 
so that its northern range is considerably extended. Pozoa 
reniformis occurred on the Auckland Islands as well as on the 
Campbell Islands. I found it many years ago in the Spenser 
Mountains, Nelson, and received specimens from the Ashburton 
ranges (both in New Zealand). 
One or two patches of Coprosma repens with simple stems less 
than 1 inch high bore hermaphrodite flowers. Celmisia verbasci- 
Jolia is a fine addition to the Campbell Islands flora: the flowers 
are the largest I have seen. 
At Port Ross and other places I found two or three species of 
Corysanthes. About C. macrantha and C. rivularis I feel certain, 
although flowers were not seen; but another flowerless plant, 
which may have been referred by you to the C. rotundifolia, 
appeared to me the same as the one-flowered monophyllous orchid 
from Mount Anglein, in Stewart Island, which you thought 
would constitute a new genus, intermediate between Burnettia 
and Caladenia. 
I have been much puzzled with your Ligusticum intermedium 
and L. Lyallii, of which, or rather of the former, good specimens 
from Port Preservation and Stewart Island have been sent to 
Kew; but Lean find nothing that exactly agrees with L. Lyallii. 
On the Snares a few plants of a large form, 5 feet high, with 
stems 2 inches in diameter, were found in fruit; the leaves 
bipinnate, pinne pinnatifid, segments acute; fruit longer than 
the pedieels. The entire plant devoid of the milky juice so 
characteristic of Z. intermedium. 
I hope this will not prove wearisome: should it do so, please 
remember that more than forty years ago reviews of ‘Flora 
Antarctica’ laid fast hold of me, and kindled an intense desire 
to see Chrysobactron Rossii, Pleurophyllum speciosum, and Cel- 
misia vernicosa in their native soil. After long waiting, the 
hasty pleasure has been realized, and I hope to enjoy it again 
before 1 die. 
Believe me, 
Yours truly, 
T. KIRK. 
